EDUCATION ACCESSEducational Neglect is defined as failure to send child to school/prevent child from getting education (Mennen et al. 2010). Educational neglect has not yet achieved the same level of study or recognition as other forms of child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. Currently, only...
Marci Hamilton, founder and CEO of CHILD USA, advocates in USA Today for the urgent cause of banning corporal punishment in public schools. She begins by citing a shocking incident in Florida where a 6-year-old student was beaten by her school principal with a wooden paddle. Despite seeming like a...
CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff’s request to proceed under pseudonym on her claims arising from childhood sexual abuse by two clergymen while on Defendants property. The Defendants in this case challenge Plaintiff’s request for anonymity absent a protective order from the...
Healing Takes Time: Delores' Story By Kristen Pfautz Woolley, RN, BSN, LCSW There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you ~ Maya Angelou Delores stands next to a pink rosebush planted...
